Chapter 146: Chapter 144: Annihilating the Xu Family

Nine dull thuds, the sound of sharp objects piercing flesh, rang out almost simultaneously! Some of the nine Xu Family Cultivators had just managed to activate their Protective Spiritual Light. Others had barely raised their Magical Artifacts halfway before the lightning-fast and incomparably sharp Ice Cones instantly pierced their vital spots! Blood mixed with shards of ice splattered everywhere. The nine bodies, their faces frozen in utter disbelief, crashed to the ground!

In an instant, the plaza fell deathly silent! The only sounds were the heavy thuds of bodies hitting the ground and the drip, drip of blood. The remaining Xu Family Cultivators were completely frozen in place, as if struck by an Immobilization Spell. The Magical Artifacts in their hands felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds, and for a moment, they forgot to even activate them! Only Xu Cheng and two other Mid-stage Qi Cultivation Cultivators, the most experienced and mentally resilient of the group, managed to react.

"Fire Cloud Technique!" Xu Cheng roared, his hands forming a seal. A scorching Fire Cloud, imbued with an aura that could incinerate anything, descended upon Lu Zhao!

The other two men attacked simultaneously. A Flying Sword and a Golden Saber transformed into two fierce streams of light, stabbing straight for Lu Zhao’s vitals!

The three attacks, filled with desperation and killing intent, struck from different directions, attempting to seal off any room for Lu Zhao to dodge!

Faced with these three attacks, Lu Zhao’s expression was cold. He made no move to dodge or evade, instead allowing the Jade Gold Light Curtain raised by his Jade Water Golden Scale Shield to meet the three strikes head-on.

’There are more important things to deal with.’ At that moment, Lu Zhao’s thoughts raced. Under his Divine Sense Manipulation, the five Puppets that had charged into the crowd were like tigers pouncing on a flock of sheep. They instantly lunged at the Xu Family Cultivators who had yet to recover from their shock! In a flash, fists flew, icy winds howled, and Vine Snakes constricted, unleashing a cacophony of agonized screams!

BOOM! HISS! CLANG!

Xu Cheng’s Fire Cloud, along with the Flying Sword and Golden Saber from the two Mid-stage Qi Cultivation Cultivators, slammed into the Jade Gold Light Curtain almost simultaneously! The barrier of light from the shield fluctuated violently, emitting a dull roar and a harsh, scraping sound. The jade-gold light flickered, but ultimately, it showed no signs of breaking! The attack had merely consumed a considerable amount of Lu Zhao’s Magical Power.

But this was well within Lu Zhao’s expectations. ’How could a Tier One High-Grade defensive magic tool be so easily broken by the hasty, combined attack of two Mid-stage cultivators and a single, ordinary Late-stage cultivator?’

To Xu Cheng, however, the sight was utterly horrifying. ’He blocked it! That Defensive Spiritual Artifact...’ Xu Cheng was stunned, but what he felt more keenly was despair. His opponent had taken a combined attack from three people without a scratch. That level of Defense Power was far beyond his estimations.

However, just as Xu Cheng and the other two were caught in the moment between attacks—their old power spent but new power not yet summoned—the Magical Power in Lu Zhao’s body, which had grown slightly sluggish from the continuous Casting, finally began to surge again. A vicious glint flashed in his eyes, and the Hundred Waters Magic Disc began to hum once more!

"Thousand Overlapping Waves and Hundred Water Spirits!"

A deep blue Water Blade—even more condensed and profound than the one he’d used to break the formation—suddenly took shape at the center of the Hundred Waters Magic Disc! The Water Blade was only a little over a foot long, yet it seemed to contain a terrifying power capable of tearing the heavens and the earth asunder. The moment it appeared, the temperature in the entire plaza plummeted, and the very air seemed to freeze solid!

"This is bad!" In that instant, Xu Cheng felt his blood run cold as the shadow of death loomed over him. He shrieked, "Dodge! Get out of the way...!"

But it was too late!

The deep blue Water Blade shot out without a sound! It didn’t cut directly toward Xu Cheng and the other two. Instead, it carved a bizarre arc through the air, heading with unerring precision for the other members of the Xu Family!

Like the Grim Reaper’s scythe, the Water Blade plunged into the remaining group of Xu Family Cultivators. There were no earth-shattering explosions in its wake, only a rapid series of sickening, wet thuds—the sound of flesh being torn and skeletons being pulverized.

"AHH—!"

"No!"

"Patriarch, save me!"

Shrill, desperate screams instantly pierced the night sky! Severed limbs and gouts of hot blood flew into the air! The deep blue Water Blade plowed through the crowd like a meat grinder, utterly unstoppable! In a single strike, it had wiped out more than half of the remaining Xu Family Cultivators!

When the Water Blade dissipated, the plaza had become a scene straight out of an Asura Hell. Bodies littered the ground, and blood flowed in rivers. Of the original group of several dozen people, fewer than eight remained standing. Every one of them was wounded, their auras feeble, their faces masks of boundless terror and stunned disbelief. Even Xu Cheng had been caught by the attack’s aftermath; half his body was drenched in blood, his aura plummeted, and he staggered backward, his eyes filled with incredulous despair.

"Run! Run!" Xu Cheng coughed up a mouthful of blood and roared with the last of his strength, "Scatter! If even one of you can get away, that’s a victory! For the Xu Family... preserve our bloodline!"

The surviving Xu Family Cultivators snapped out of their stupor as if waking from a nightmare. Like startled birds, they no longer cared for kinship or family honor. Screaming, they scattered in every direction inside the fortress, fleeing for their lives!

Lu Zhao watched this all unfold with a cold gaze. He didn’t pursue them himself. With but a flicker of a thought, the five Puppets—three Cyan Wood Giant Apes, one Vine Snake, and one Ice Wind Wolf Puppet—shot forward like hounds given a command. They transformed into five black blurs, swiftly chasing after the scattering figures.

Lu Zhao wasn’t worried about them escaping. He had three more Puppets waiting outside. ’Even if these heavily injured and exhausted cultivators manage to get out of the plaza,’ he thought, ’they will soon be met with an even deeper despair.’

As for Lu Zhao himself, he walked step by step through the thick, slick pools of blood, treading over cold, stiff limbs and corpses, toward the collapsed figure of Xu Cheng, whose face was ashen with death.

"You... Who are you?" Xu Cheng struggled to lift his head, his bloodshot eyes filled with nothing but bone-deep hatred and utter confusion. "Why... Why wipe out my entire Xu Family? You... How can someone at the Qi Cultivation Stage... unleash such a terrifying attack?" He couldn’t understand. ’How could anyone unleash an attack on par with the Foundation Establishment stage using only Magic and Magical Artifacts, without a Tier Two Talisman?’

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